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Mogadishu, [a] locally known as Xamar or Hamar, is the capital and most populous city of Somalia. The city has served as an important port connecting traders across the Indian Ocean for millennia and has an estimated urban population of 2,610,483.
Prior to the civil war, Mogadishu was known as the White pearl of the Indian Ocean. Mogadishu (Somali: Muqdisho, popularly Xamar; Arabic: مقديشو) is the largest city in Somalia and the nation's capital. Located in the coastal Benadir region on the Indian Ocean, the city has served as an important port for centuries.
Somalia has an estimated population of 18.1 million, [16] [17] [18] of which 2.7 million live in the capital and largest city, Mogadishu. Around 85% of its residents are ethnic Somalis and the official languages of the country are Somali and Arabic , though the former is the primary language.
Its capital is Mogadishu, known locally as Xamar (pronounced: Hamar), although the administrative region itself is coextensive with the city. Benaadir is much smaller than the historical region of Benadir, which covered most of the country's central and southern seaboard opposite the Indian Ocean and up to the Juba River, including Mogadishu. [9]
Capital Horn of Africa: Dodoma Tanzania: 410,956 2012 Capital Great Lakes Region: Gitega Burundi: 125,989 2019 [7] Capital Great Lakes Region: Harare Zimbabwe: 1,606,000 2016 Capital Southeast Africa: Hargeisa Somaliland: 1,960,000 2019 Capital Horn of Africa: Juba South Sudan: 525,953 2017 Capital Nile Valley: Kampala Uganda: 1,507,114 2014 ...
The death toll from the what is being called the most powerful bomb blast witnessed in Somalia's capital rose to 200 with more than 250 injured.
President of Somalia Mohamed Siad Barre established five of these regions in 1974 and 1975 for biased clan reasons, Middle Juba, Lower Juba, Gedo, Bay, and Bakool; [11] Banaadir shrank to consist of only Mogadishu at the same time. [12] Below are the regions of Somalia, with their capitals shown in parentheses: Awdal ; Bakool
Based on the amazing true story of embassy staff from both countries joining forces to escape probable death in the civil war-ravaged Somali capital in 1991, this propulsive and intelligently ...